GOBIOMORUS. GOBIOMORE, 



Generic Character. 



//flfoY&ygenerisprsecedentis. II Habit as in the preceding 



genus. 

 Pinna ventrales distinctae. || Ventral fins distinct. 



A HE genus Gobiomorus is instituted by the 

 Count de Cepede, and contains those species which 

 differ from the genuine Gobies in having the ventral 

 fins separate, instead of being united, as in that 

 genus, into the form of a funnel : in the Gmelinian 

 edition of the Systema Naturse they are associated 

 with the genus Gobius. 



SOUTHERN GOBIOMORE. 



Gobiomorus Australia. G. tlialassinus, rubro-maculatus, subtus 



albas, capitejlavo pinnis rubro variatis. 

 Blue-green Gobiomore with red. spots j whitish beneath ; the 



head variegated with yellow, and the fins with red. 

 Gobius strigatus. G. pinna vent rail bipartite*, dor soli prima, 



sexradiata. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1204. Brouss. ichth. 



dec. 1. 

 ke Gobiomore Taiboa. Cepede 2. p. 587* 



NATIVE of the Southern ocean, and observed 

 about the coasts of Otaheitee : body compressed, 

 much elongated., and covered with squarish, scales : 



